If I Wasn't Hispanic , I'd Have A Different Career- Rita Moreno

She turns 91 today.

Rita looked at Natalie Wood, who was also some sort of ethnic, and seethed about how differently they were treated by Hollywood. Rita could sing, dance and act. Natalie could just stand and smile. Rita's bitterness has never abated.

R2- Her BITCHINESS hasn't abated either.

She was a whore, darlin’.

…and if I had a vagina, I’d be a woman.

J/K, men have vaginas now too, lol

Yeah, we probably wouldn’t know who you are.

She’s being silly .

Considering her break-out role was as an Hispanic, if she wasn't an Hispanic she might not have had a career.

Not saying the discrimination doesn't exist, but she should be honest enough to see the bigger picture for her, including her abrasive personality.

She was great on Oz. Apparently, she was universally beloved by that ever-revolving cast, so she couldn't have been that big of a diva/pain in the ass.

She's 92 and still kicking. She was in Hollywood, if she says it I believe her. She's watched countless lesser talents get MORE opportunity.

Isn’t she ethnically Italian though?

If she wasn’t Hispanic she would’ve been one of thousands of thoroughly unimpressive white women who fucked her way to the middle.

The saying went back then:

If you’re white, you’re alright.

If you’re brown, maybe stick around.

If you’re black, get back.

What more did she want? She was the first EGOT and she's been working for nearly 70 years without stopping.

She really is a massive, yawping cunt. There definitely is something to "only the good die young."

Plumber?

Moreno has a great career and is a EGOT

[quote] What more did she want? She was the first EGOT and she's been working for nearly 70 years without stopping.

In SUPPORTING roles, why didn't she have an opportunity to be Liza or Cher or Meryl?!

Not everyone is a leading performer. She's, at best, a character actress. You could say the same for anyone from Agnes Moorehead to Margo Martindale. It has nothing to do with her being Hispanic.

Is she so senile she forgot she's sitting there with a tarnishing Oscar?

R17. Because she didn’t have Liza’s star quality (or parents), Cher’s divinity, or Streep’s talent.

And she’s no Chita, though she filmed better.

So an incredible career full of awards from your peers and a long life isn’t enough? Then what is?

I think she did play a few characters who weren't Latino. But her appearance is ethnic-looking, and the world knows she's Hispanic, so it's hard to see her as anything else but that. If she had been born with Cameron Diaz's features, she might've had better luck in getting cast in non-latino roles.

[quote]She's 92 and still kicking.

How dare you!? I'm only 91!

I think Gerard Alessandrini from Forbidden Broadway said it best when he wrote:

Rita: I can play any role I choose.

Chita: Gypsies, Italians and Black Jews

I never got any warmth from anything I've seen her in.

She projected warmth in her Golden Girls appearance.

But ya are, Rita! Ya are!

Rancid cunt

It's clear she doesn't understand that the term Hispanic is an ethnicity term. Racially Rita is white.

As the kids say, "where's the lie?"

She's ungrateful crybaby cunt. I won't give her break because she's old.

And, not to pile on from my position of privilege (which I acknowledge), the entire story should include the fact that she may not have gotten the part in OZ if she wasn't Hispanic. I know nothing for a fact, but I suspect that on his productions Tom Fontana does nothing without purpose.

She was also very good playing Bobby Goren's schizophrenic mother in Law & Order Criminal Intent. I don't think her ethnicity mattered either way in casting that part, but she apparently feels she had to wait a long time for color blind roles. Not sure anyone can argue that it wasn't the case.

But the EGOT is the primary reason that she might not want to piss on her career.

What does EGOT stand for?

French snails 🐌

Go get' em, Googie! Tell it like it should be!

If she wasn’t a cunt, she’d have a bigger career.

If she “wasn’t” Hispanic, she wouldn’t have a career at all.

R33

E·GOT /ˈēˌɡät/ Learn to pronounce nouninformal•US noun: EGOT; plural noun: EGOTs

the achievement of having won all four of the major American entertainment awards (i.e. an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony).

R36 She's probably too stupid to realize that.

She appropriated OUR culture and stole one of OUR jobs when she accepted a role in “The King and I.” Then she goes on TCM and bitches about Natalie Wood playing a Latino in “West Side Story”???

Pot, meet kettle.

Sincerely,

Thai actresses everywhere

It would be classier if she focused on her accomplishments in interviews rather than her setbacks. She's had a long, successful career and many awards and should be inspiring young performers rather than spreading bitterness. And her snide remarks about Natalie Wood are just plain tacky.

I used to be a fan until she went on her “Poor Me” tour. She has shown a remarkable lack of class and grace in recent years.

She's over 90. Let's indulge her and call her Dame Rita.

R43 Indulging her would be just be normalizing her shitty entitled attitude.

It’s all part and parcel of our social media culture. If people aren’t paying attention to you, you’re not important. And you’re judged more entitled to attention if you’ve been discriminated against or victimized.

That puts us where we are: an EGOT claiming people didn’t pay enough attention to her.

Her lack of dignity doesn't age well. It's a shitty business rife with misogyny and racism. So is much of the rest of the culture. Her longevity in the business and the awards and accolades should be seen by her as a victory. I've seen her work in film and television and have enjoyed it. But she never, in my opinion, exuded the indefinable magic that is defined as "stardom".

I guess I don't understand why some of you have the "ungrateful minority" position as your default, especially when, I'm assuming, everyone on here is gay. I'm not quite sure why some of you want to put your heads in the sand about past inequities.

This isn't going to be well-received, but whenever I hear Latino/a and Asian actors/actresses complain about lack of representation and opportunity in the industry in the 50's, 60s, 70s, and even 80's, I want to remind them of just the US demographics back then.

The latino population in the US in 1950 was a little over 1.5% (2.3 million out of 151 million). The asian population was much muc smaller than that (320,000 out of 151 million).

Part of the reason for that were racist immigration policies - that's just a fact. However, the US has become much more diverse since overturning those policies in the late 60's and you're seeing the faces of entertainment reflect that in the last 20-30 years.

Hollywood is a business - it's not a government funded equal opportunity program. People are investing huge sums of money and they want a return via viewership and box office receipts.

Any entertainers other than the primary US demo (straight, white) will have it harder. Jesus - how many gay or lesbian actors have actually really broken through and are pigeon-holed or stereotyped if they do come out?

But the historical lack of Latino and Asian representation isn't some big racist plan - there truly wasn't a significant percentage of US population in those two groups. I just do not see it on the same parallel as the black struggle at all because it isn't. Now, keeping blacks of out film and TV - that was absolutely racist. The lack of good roles and behind the camera opportunities for women - that's sexist.

I say this with love in my heart, but Jesus Christ I’m sick of this entitled old bag. When I think of all the broke, exploited, failed entertainers who would have treasured the opportunities that came to her. She sounds like a nightmare of ego and self-worship. Solipsists like this old crone can fuck all the way off.

And let me add - she wouldn't have the career she had either if she wasn't so beautiful. You wanna talk about privilege - then let's talk about all aspects of privilege.

But funny - the really beautiful and good-looking people never want to acknowledge that. It's just 'their talent'. But Hollywood knows that audiences want to see attractive people, so they win jobs over less attractive actors.

It's a tough business - she should be happy for her success and having a career that lasted so long. Most actors/actresses have about 5 to maybe 10 good years and then they're finished.

Pretty privilege

Able privilege

R47

As a gay man I can acknowledge the past was shitty and still acknowledge the world has changed and I'm better off than I was and still express hope that the future will be even better for those like me.

That's simple and reductive, but think DL is commenting on her lack of reflection and introspection regarding society et al then and now.

We can't go back and change the world so she had the career she wanted to have. She might even spend some time reflecting on the fact that the world, albeit maybe too slowly, is changing for people "like her."

Well maybe if she had spent less time getting fucked and fucked over by Brando . . .

R21

Yeah, and, you'd think getting to fuck Marlon Brando would count, too!

Shit. Sorry R53. I was typing.

R50 is right. Beauty, physical beauty, might be the unspoken system of oppression. I know I’m fortunate and have a big job, and when I meet with peers, it is shocking how physically attractive they are. They are almost always taller, with great hair and broader shoulders and symmetrical features, things like these.

“End white privilege! All whites are evil supremacists!!! … Now give me that white dick!!!! Immediately!!!!” - Rita in the 50s and every woke POC Twitter jockey now

R56 - the struggle is real. Good thing I was born into money - another part of Hollywood privilege that nobody likes to talk about either.

She’s modest too.

“Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.”

Certainly her ego is "bigger than life."

Please calm down.

Ms. Morenos perspective regarding her career is not a personal attack against the whites.

I love her. I also absolutely believe Sally Struthers.

Who did she fuck to get her role in Singin in the Rain?

And if she hadn't been pretty she probably would have had no career. That face went a long way towards opening doors. More and more people are expecting that somehow showbiz should be fair and as someone said it should be an equal opportunity program. Like there should be affirmative action. Which is the way it's acting now. Which is why Broadway and Hollywood are worse than ever.

R64 we should only have obese, ugly, paraplegic POC that are dark chocolate playing any roles or even living. Let’s get this race to the bottom over with.

This is what it comes down to-

Rita Moreno has NO CLASS

I think Anne Bancroft came to Hollywood about the same time as Rita and also got cast in ethnic roles. But Anne never bitched about it. She was smart enough to know she had to go to Broadway to be considered a serious actress. But then Rita was no Anne Bancroft.

I just can’t with this cunt.

"Aged just 18, she signed to MGM Studios. But in what would be her first clear experience of how little power she had in that era, the teenager known as Rosa Dolores Alverio was forced to change her name.

"They didn't know what to do with me because of my name," she says."

Yes Rita. Only you.

They didn't know what to do with John Garfinkle or Sam Goldfish either.

I get tired of the complaints of the privileged.

She a bish.

And responsible for one of the worst episodes of the Golden Girls evah!

She is right of course.

Saw it first hand. Casting directors openly discussing not wanting to see Latinos, white-passing or not, in their auditions.

Googie Gomez : [In a thick accent] One of dees days ju is going to see de name of Googie Gomez up in lights and you gonna ask to juself, [gasps]

Googie Gomez : 'Was dat her?' An den ju gonna answer to juself, [gasps]

Googie Gomez : 'Jes, dat was her!' Well, let me tell you something, Mister: I was ALWAYS her, jus dat nobody knows it!"

[quote]Isn’t she ethnically Italian though?

Rita is Puerto Rican, she was born there. Her maternal grandfather was from Spain.

Her real name is Rosa Dolores Alverío Marcano. Never heard she was Italian. People used to think John Leguizamo was Italian, because "his last name sounds Italian."

From Wiki: "Moreno was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico, to Rosa María (née Marcano), a seamstress, and Francisco José "Paco" Alverío, a farmer.

She was nicknamed "Rosita". Moreno, whose mother was 17 at the time of her birth, was raised in nearby Juncos. Her maternal grandparents were Justino Marcano (b. Puerto Rico) and Trinidad from Spain.

Moreno's mother moved to New York City in 1936, taking her daughter, but not her son, Moreno's younger brother, Francisco, whom Moreno would not see again until 2021.

Moreno adopted the surname of her first stepfather, Edward Moreno, Rosa Maria's second husband. She spent her teenage years living in the villages of Valley Stream on Long Island, part of the town of Hempstead bordering New York City.”

What did they say when you called them out on their discrimination R73?

Rita the Thai Princess

Where were her morals when she was collecting that King and I paycheck?

I was a little faggot who dreamed of being a sexy ingenue in film, but I wasn’t born with a cunt, so my dreams were dashed. If I Wasn't Homosexual & a Man, I'd Have A Different Career. Pussy Privilege. I’d have sucked every cock in Hollywood for roles.

Rita reminds me a bit of John Leguizamo. Leguizamo was complaining several months ago about James Franco being cast in a movie about Fidel Castro. When people brought up Leguizamo playing Italian and French men in movies, he didn't respond to them at all.

Rita is Sparkle’s future minus the real accomplishments to look back upon.

She needs to shut her trap. You don’t hear Jenny Lopez complaining about her career.

R82 wait until she’s 90

In the '50s, Rita was a makeup-slathered starlet to look exotic. By the time the '60s rolled around, she looked like a tough broad. Somewhere in her later years, Moreno got some good plastic surgery for the long-haul. A good all-around performer, but the late '60s and '70s weren't kind to her fellow female showbiz stars...

Loved her as Sister Peter Marie on Oz.

Honestly, she's right that being Hispanic hurt her at the beginning of her career and probably through middle age. But it's an asset it now.

R86 It hurt her so much she won an Oscar aged 30.

Not surprisingly, MIss Thing is extremely, self involved. In her documentary, she kept slamming her deceased husband. If it weren't for WSS, Rita might have become a meter maid.

R88 Agree, I found her biopic fucking miserable. And it looked cheap as fuck.

All these precious snowflakes. Christ. Everybody is subjected to rejection in the biz for any number of reasons. She's fortunate that she's had a long and successful career. Show some gratitude.

I've listened to interviews on the AFTRA site on Youtube meant to archive TV history and one that stood out is Diana Muldaur. She had all kinds of rejection for being perceived as a WASP but she laughs about it and expresses gratitude for her career and she's no effing EGOT.

Rita should be super grateful for the career she had considering her lack of charm and likeability.

Is it senility that’s causing this behavior?

Lin-Maree is an advocate for her. Enough said.

As pretty as Rita was she never had Natalie Wood's movie star charisma and it's always bugged the shit out of her. Even after all these years Natalie Wood is still the star of West Side Story Rita's biggest claim to fame.

How many violin strings has this chick worn out and broken over telling this shtick during the last few years?!

[quote] Rita should be super grateful for the career she had considering her lack of charm and likeability.

She probably thinks because she's elderly she can get away with this kind of shit. But, it makes her look like an ingrate of the highest order.

She briefly played Norma Desmond in London. I saw her. Decent performance, nothing special. But we were having drinks outside the theatre when she came out and the autograph gang approached and one asked her something to which I heard her grandly and condescendingly reply: I don't know, I was acting! It was bitchy.

She is very lucky. She had been given legendary status for at least 20 years. She is certainly talented but not that more so than scores of others who never went anywhere in their career. As suggested, if she were not Hispanic, she might have never made it out of the “chorus line”.

I’m curious as to why she stayed in a 46-year marriage if she was unhappy. I’ve read that in the documentary she said, “I couldn’t find a way to leave” but I didn’t find anything beyond that except for her alluding to the fact that she didn’t want to break up the family.

Makes no sense as her daughter was in her early 40s and married when Leonard Gordon died.

She was a whore, slept her way to the top, like throwing a hotdog down a hallway nowadays!

I do wonder how many people who are commenting in this thread, actually read the article in the OP.

Shit.

Lena "Crazy-Eyes" Horne had more to bitch about than Bitch-Bitch-Bitch Moreno.

Much more.

What exactly are you referring to R101?

Jesus Christ! I rearranged my schedule, remodeled the house to move my practice into it, what the fuck more could this egotistical cunt find to bitch about?!

She's saying that it was thanks to being Hispanic that she had the wonderful show business career she's had, and if she weren't Hispanic she'd have ended up with a different career. Like motel housekeeping staff or fry cook.

She might as well have had MGM tattooed on her backside!

She's never been a favorite of mine...other than being on The Electric Company where her constant mugging wasn't such a distraction. You can get away with that shit on kids shows.

She's such a facile actress....no depth to her at all.

Her Googie Gomez is eye rollingly awful.

Can it, Miss Coozeburger!

I for one loved her guest turn on Golden Girls.

What did she do to Sally Struthers?

As Spielberg has proven, the only reason people went to see WWS is Natalie. That Moreno ugly cunt was OK, she was dubbed in it like everybody else, and she managed to get an oscar, after which she became so unhinged that she wasn't hired for almost a decade. That's how toxic she is. Her claims about her steamy, oversexual escapades being Brando's great love are laughable, we all know THAT was Wally Cox. She was ugly then, is ugly now, inside ad out, and she should be grateful her ethnicity gave her a pass in the golden age of Hollywwod, where she probably was the ugliest contract player by a mile. Now if she could, in her dotage say something like " Natalie could wipe my entire career from the map with one smile of hers, just standing there, and I'm happy I'm part of that legend" she would look 10 times better.

She's sarcastic and being silly op.

Her place in entertainment history is assured.

R111 Did nobody go to see the original WSS for the music and incredible choreography?

If I Wasn't Hispanic , I Wouldn’t Have A Career, because I’d be an average looking white girl- Rita Moreno

Rita's cuntitude is so deep I saw it mentioned on another site

How many white girls have gone to Hollywood to have their dreams crushed, but didn’t make their failure about race? Most the time you’re ugly, untalented, or sucked the wrong cock. The problem with current climate is that minorities are starting to believe that the normal failures of life always have to do with race, they do not. Rita is the top .01% of Hollywood and she still thinks she FAILED and race had to with it. John Leguizamo thinks he’d be Tom Cruise if he weren’t Latino. It’s like a white guy moving to or being second generation in France or Nigeria and getting pissed when he’s not the top draw at the French & Nigerian cinemas. Truly insane, but only in America do you have the freedom to be that insane. AMERICA, where you’re free to let your ego grow as large as possible.

R116- What do you think?- Should we kick her in the CUNTBONE?

But cha ARE, Rita! Ya ARE Hispanic!

If I Wasn't Hispanic, I'd Be the Duchess of Sussex or Somewhere - Rita Moreno

It seems she is most bitter about her career when she was under contract and assigned parts. If she declined, Rita would have been put on suspension meaning she couldn't work until that film was completed. Actors do work in jobs just for the money which they need to live on. But playing a native girl is better than waiting tables.

[quote] If I Wasn't Hispanic

Woulda, shoulda

She’s annoying. She wouldn’t have had a career if she wasn’t. And it’s not like she wasn’t riding some hot white men. I mean she’s told everybody She’s annoying. She wouldn’t of had a career if she wasn’t. And it’s not like she wasn’t riding some hot white men. I mean she’s told everybody she did Brando.

As Someone asked earlier what did she do to Sally Struthers?

she called her a TV actress.

Rita Moreno is a fully white-looking Hispanic. She derives about 90% of the White privilege any average white person receives. She has also dined out on her "heritage" in a way no Irish, Polish, or Italian actress ever could and she remains a total expert at bringing all the attention to herself.

It's not like she's Pearl Bailey, or Nancy Kwan for Christ's sake.

Judy deserved that Oscar for "Judgment at Nuremberg" anyway, so she should button it and be grateful!

If she wasn’t Hispanic, she’d still be the same dour cunt.

It was Rita’s enormous ego that enabled her to survive in Hollywood. Sure, her ethnicity limited the roles she could get back then, but she wasn’t a versatile actress. Her talent was in singing and dancing, not emoting. She was more suited playing supporting characters.

She was not a rare beauty. She was pretty. Even if she were white, she didn’t have the “it” factor needed to be a leading lady, who could sell a film on the strength of her personal charm.

She seemed to think otherwise. In her autobiography, which showcased her middling skill as a writer, she described giving her teenaged self a makeover and new hairstyle in imitation of Elizabeth Taylor. This was done to attract the studio heads, to get her foot in the Hollywood door.

According to her, the bigwigs took one look at this transformed Rita and declared her the Latina Elizabeth Taylor, a future star. Yeah, right. She was not in the same league in looks. She didn’t have a star’s compelling personality. Still, she had a long career and should be grateful for it.

R126- Yes. She was in the movie The Four Seasons- playing Italian American. She played Goren's sick mother on Criminal Intent.

[quote] She was pretty.

She was pretty as Alison Janney, R128.

So entitled. She's a decent actress and singer but so are many others who never get a career. Plus she took Judy's last chance at an Oscar in '61

I remember when she refused to be in the film of Gemini because she felt the role should be played by an Italian American.

She shtole Mama’sh Oshcar!

I'll dedicate the song "Morena Tropicana" to her.

I rimmed her hole out in all the major cities of Britain! What more does she want?

Everyone's a victim these days. How would these people ever get through 2 world wars plus countless other shit with such a victim mentality

R114, no. Maybe a few queens did, but an entire generation of str8s went to se that picture and they don't care about that. They went, because it was the thing to do, the film to see, because it was exciting to see a musical with gangs, murder, blood, in NYC, and because they loved Natalie since REBEL. Nobody went to se WWS for Rita Moreno, and very few people knew her name after watching the movie, whereas Natalie Wood became a household name, everywhere in the world. They didn't like the movie btw, they liked PARTS of it = the incredible panoramic opening, the number on the roof, Natalie's beauty, the poignant ending, the modern Romeo and Juliet references. Rita should be grateful she's hispanic and was cast in the movie. Nobody cares about her, she'll be a footnote in the history of cinema. She's a one trick pony, and she wasn't even that good as Anita, the cunt.

Rita Moreno can do no wrong. Love her.

And fuck (with a chainsaw) all of you worthless cunts who disagree. You suck ass, and not in the preferred method.

R138 = , unsurprisingly, Rita herself

R139 No, but full disclosure, I have worked with her twice; most recently was on West Side Story.

Everyone else in the cast and crew also loved her and felt it was a privilege to work with her.

Any nude pics of Rita?

R140 Rita, really, now you are just embarrassing yourself.

r140, Let's see what she has to say about you... (Rita Moreno) : " R140 ? I know R140, a born victim if ever there was one. Terrible accent. Can't post a funny reply if his life depended on it. Can't sing, can't dance, very ordinary looking. Frankly, If I wasn't hispanic, I wouldn't have to put up with people like R140 ". Who can do no wrong now ?

[quote]I have worked with her twice; most recently was on West Side Story.

60 years ago...R140 is senile. Makes sense

So if he worked with her most recently on the '61 WSS. I guess the time before that was The Toast of New Orleans. Which means it's James Mitchell back from the dead.

I worked with her on Singing In The Rain. She was a puta, and sucked all the cocks.

R137 - I hate watched WSS.

Never heard of her.

[quote]If I Wasn't Hispanic , I'd Have A Different Career- Rita Moreno

If you weren't a WHORE, you'd have a different career....what's you point?

Wait, Hollywood wanted to hide the fact that she was Hispanic, so they changed her name from Rosa Dolores Alverio to Rita Moreno?

I will never forgive her for winning Judy Garland's Oscar.

R144 / R145 No, I worked with Rita on the remake of West Side Story (2021).

You should see it.

I saw it twice in the cinema R152 wherever you are.

R8 says it all.

She did a striptease scene in Marlowe and even though she was almost 40 was smoking hot.

R155 at 1:59

Still a cunt here!

Always and forever!!!!

Hot Hot Hot

Me, I’m thinking of all the Thai actresses who didn’t get cast in “King and I”. But they put Rita in. So Rita can go fuck herself with her Oscar, if she hadn’t already. She did exactly what she’s complaining about was done to her.

She really needs to die now.

It isn’t difficult to imagine that a white, non Hispanic woman who earned EGOT in supporting roles would’ve been given a shot at a leading role career.

[quote] a shot at a leading role career.

such as ? she has zero range, and could only ever play Anita

I think Rita Moreno is wonderful.

Love her. And she’s right. People say “oh she’s white Hispanic so she’s treated like any white person”. One of the biggest lies ever.

Right. Like a secretary. She has the career she because she is Latina. She said in that doc about her last year that MGM wanted to sign her in the late 1940s because LB thought her test made her resemble a Latina Elizabeth Taylor.

[quote] She said in that doc about her last year that MGM wanted to sign her in the late 1940s because LB thought her test made her resemble a Latina Elizabeth Taylor.

SHE said. Exactly. LB never said any such BS, She wouldn't resemble Taylor in a foggy night, and I don't even like Taylor. and SHE said Brando was all over her for years, adn SHE said Natalie couldn't hold a candle to her. SHE is so bitter and full of shit.

She should try being born a sharecropper.

R158 Hot body, the face not so much - that blonde is not flattering on her.

[quote]I’m curious as to why she stayed in a 46-year marriage if she was unhappy.

Because she fucked anyone and everyone - those who could help her and those who co-starred with her - while her dentist hubby kept a blind eye or didn't care. Why would you ditch a sugar daddy who paid the bills when times were hard and let you do exactly what you wanted?

In the early 70s, I worked with her on the Broadway production of THE RITZ. Starting during rehearsals, she had an affair with Stephen Collins. He was an innocent back then, but very married. Look at him now. When the dentist/hubby showed up for the opening night, he had to wait in the background at the cast party until she had finished making the rounds. Nobody knew who he was, and she certainly made no effort to introduce him. Her playwright/friend Terrence McNally finally introduced the poor schlub to the guests.

She was the Michelle Yeoh of her time

BTW, Yeoh won't be the first asian who wins best actress anyway, Vivien Leigh did that almost a century before her

I never cease to be amazed at actors' stupidity and self-centeredness. Even at the height of the meetoo shit, which coincided with her small resurgence and WSS 2.0 flop, when she had a moment, and could have presented herself in a better light finally, she didn't understand that trashing Natalie wasn't doing anything for her. Pathetic.

On the other hand, if she'd been "White White," Marlon Brando wouldn't have fucked her.

You still don't see a lot of Hispanic actors or actresses in movies for some reason. I wonder why.

Isn't LA half Hispanic? Why aren't there more Hispanic actors and actresses!? Something off about that.

Don't tell me Hispanic actors or actresses are auditioning! What US born Hispanic actors or actresses have won awards? It's insane.

You know there's a real problem with the lack of representation when it takes Sandra Bullock to get involved in making The George Lopez show or nothing is happening.

The reason this show is packed with Latino American diversity is actually in response to the lack of it on television at the time. In the early 2000s, Sandra Bullock noticed a lack of representation for Latinos and wanted to create a television show to fix this. She saw Lopez perform standup and approached him with a pitch for what would later become the show, “George Lopez.”

However, networks were not immediately receptive to the idea of a Latino version of “The Cosby Show.” Bullock pitched the show to all of the major networks but, according to her, ”they didn’t know what to do with it.” Thanks to Bruce Helford, “The Drew Carey Show” creator and “Roseanne” writer, the show ended up airing on ABC with Helford becoming a co-creator and an executive producer.

The “George Lopez” show first premiered in April 2002 and lasted for six seasons. A few days after the last season aired in May 2007, the show was canceled by ABC after one executive told Lopez that the network would lose money should the show be renewed. Lopez believed part of the reason for the show’s cancellation was the fact that it was produced by Warner Bros. Television and not ABC Studios.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Lopez mentioned that despite the show having changed time slots multiple times, it still had better ratings than newer shows like “Notes from the Underbelly” and “The Knights of Prosperity.” He also dismissed their decision to pick up “Cavemen,” the infamous sitcom based on the Geico cavemen commercials, and not his show: “So a Chicano can’t be on TV, but a caveman can?”

Movies aren't a demographic study. Perhaps latino actors suck, and they don't deserve awards when they land an acting job